Metal Cats: Cute Cats & the Metalheads that Love Them

April 3, 2014

Metal Cats: Cute Cats & the Metalheads that Love Them.

When you think of bands with names like Murder Construct, Exhumed, Municipal Waste and Napalm Death, you probably aren’t thinking about fuzzy little kittens… but then you’d be missing something. Photographer Alexandra Crockett’s new book Metal Cats traces the unlikely pairing of felines and the hardcore metal fans that love them.

What’s even better is that these musicians, most of whom have thousands of supporters worldwide, aren’t just putting their faces behind the cause. A series of benefit concerts will be held along the U.S. West Coast, and the proceeds from these concerts, along with a portion of the book’s proceeds, will go to no-kill animal shelters at each of the four cities visited by the benefit shows.

Metal Cats combines two amazing subjects: the extreme personalities of the hardcore metal music scene and their adorable kitties. These incredibly cute and fluffy felines have been photographed with their loving owners in and around the dark abodes of musicians, fans, and promoters of metal including members of the bands Black Goat, Thrones, Isis, Lightning Swords of Death, Book of Black Earth, Skarp, Harassor, Akimbo, Aldebaran, Atriarch, Oak, Ghoul, Ludicra, Holy Grail, Xasthur, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, Exhumed, Morbid Angel, Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Gypsyhawk, Nausea, Phobia, and Napalm Death.